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BYD will be expanding its EV leasing deal with the London-based private-car service Thriev, according to recent reports. The Chinese car manufacturer will now be delivering a further 200 of its e6 electric cars to Thriev by April 2015. The agreement marks what is now the largest overseas rental agreement for the automaker. BYD has already provided Thriev with 32

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The Nissan e-NV200 — the company’s new electric business/delivery van — is now available in Japan, but the US release has been delayed a bit, according to recent reports. The reason for the delay of the US release is due, reportedly, to the fact that Nissan wants to improve the range by integrating “better” batteries before releasing it to the

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Until full colour flexible OLED screens can be manufactured with acceptable yields, it looks like the only rugged and shatter-proof alternative to power-hungry LCDs. So much so that despite competing in the smart watch arena with “traditional” TFT LCD-based designs such as the SmartWatch 3 it launched last September, Sony is also developing watch bracelets based on E-ink, albeit without

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The YotaPhone 2’s five-inch touchscreen front display features a crisp high-definition 1080p AMOLED screen typically associated with a premium smartphone but the device’s back features an ultra-low power always-on greyscale e-ink touchscreen display which is similar to a Kindle’s screen. The e-ink display has a refresh rate of 0.012 seconds. The YotaPhone 2 can be controlled from either side as

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Q. Hyundai released a zero-emission fuel cell vehicle (FCV) this year, and Toyota is slated to release one in 2015. The last time Grist wrote about FCVs was back in 2009, and the prognosis wasn’t optimistic. Has anything changed? Is the cost and greenhouse gas output of producing hydrogen more detrimental than having a zero-emissions car? (I do live in

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One out of every five Australian households are turning to solar energy for their electricity or hot water, new data has reveled. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that its latest figures show that 19 per cent of households nationally now currently either rooftop solar panels or solar powered hot water systems – up from about 5 per cent back

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India is planning to attract $100 billion of investment in its renewable energy sector over the next five years. Japan’s Softbank could make a significant contribution towards the achievement of that goal. The state of Andhra Pradesh in India may attract investment worth billions of dollars from Softbank to fund its ambitious solar energy plans. The state government hopes to

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Forget the annual war on Christmas, things are really cooking up over the war on wind energy. The fight over wind energy has become something of a new American holiday ritual around this time of year, and now the stakes are higher than ever. In the latest twist, a coalition of US Governors has waded into the fray with a

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Between taking in a kangaroo boxing match and surfing in shark-infested waters, it turns out a lot of Australians are also going solar. According to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, one in five Australian households, or 19 percent, now use solar energy for electricity or hot water. That’s up from about 5 percent in 2011, when the

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DRS Technologies, a Finmeccanica Company, has expanded its role in the military and commercial energy storage business. DRS Power and Control Technologies has signed a memorandum of agreement with Lithiumstart LLC, a supplier of scalable, lithium ion and super capacitor-based energy storage systems (ESS), to integrate technologies into high-power military and commercial energy storage applications. DRS Power Electronic Modules (PEM),

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